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شرح ديوان ذكري
Sharh Diwan Zikri
Reading novelist Mustafa Zikri's new collection of essays, Youssef Rakha follows the example of several canonical works on the great 10th-century poet Abu Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi, all titled Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi or The Elucidation of the Diwan of Mutanabbi
Yawmiyyat (A diary)
At first, this sounds like a misnomer for the numbered pieces making up the latest book by the novelist and screenwriter Mustafa Zikri (b. 1966), Ala Atraf Al-Asabi': Yawmiyyat (On Tiptoe: A Diary), published by Dar Al-Ain last month. Though initially circulated on Facebook as entries in an ongoing diary of some sort, the pieces comprising Ala Atraf Al-Asabi' read less like the pages of a journal than the occasional work of a cultural columnist. Zikri's stated formal ambition was to eschew if not actively attack the predominant, established genres, notably the novel-cum-novella that has been his preferred medium (in recent years, as he points out, the novel has increasingly become the alpha and the omega of literary endeavour in Arabic). He also wanted to relax the iron fist with which he maintains the "literary purity" of his work, guarding the gold of true art from possible intrusions by the lead of politics or society (both the metaphor and the subsequent quotes, unless otherwise stated, come from a recent interview by Mohammad Shoair).
Yet the more you think about Zikri's work, while you read, the more sense the subtitle yawmiyyat makes. By the time you turn the last page you are convinced. This book offers precisely the kind of material you would expect to find in the diary of a writer like Zikri: fragmentary meditations on literature and film, ambiguous encounters only marginally connected with whatever real-life experiences they recount, philosophical formulations of no clear import. Entries are as carefully constructed, often as open to interpretation, as poems. And – most important of all: what sets Zikri apart from almost every other Arab writer, in fact – the texts are truly self-referential, with the movement of a passage tracing an expression or a word, not what that expression or word refers to. Narrative reduces to a sort of semantic aesthetics, the protagonist to an idea suggested by a particular turn of phrase. Ironically this tendency is clearer than ever now that Zikri is no longer consciously exercising control. Could anyone expect anything more tangible or intimate from the yawmiyyat of Mustafa Zikri?
I thought I was the kind of writer who, measured against his writings, lives a life of paucity at the level of the body and the soul. I think of Borges and Pesão and Dostoevsky… (1.)
While Zikri regards any link between literature and reality as a threat to the purity of his art, it is in fact references like this one – and the sweeping statements tending to go with them – that take away from his credibility. There is definitely room in the world of Arabic writing for quasi-postmodern theorising, however self-centred or contemplatively indulgent. But surely in the context of a novella like Hura' Mataha Qoutiyyah (Drivel about a Gothic Labyrinth, 1997), it actually undermines "purity" far more than the hypothetical inclusion of social-political commentary, properly contextualised, when the narrator consciously compares himself to Borges: a celebrated genius from a decidedly different culture and one, it might be added, whose relevance to what that narrator is doing is at best obscure. The problem is not that Zikri may be a lesser writer than Dostoevsky. It is in the directed-ness, the apparent artificiality of the kind of westward looking elitism he endeavours to cultivate – the classicism of his ambition constantly in contradiction with his essentially deconstructionist approach. His slim volumes are invariably fragmentary; insanely reworked and polished, but inconclusive.
They are also practically solipsistic – in their failure to engage with the world (a failure for which the attempt to substitute the world for Great Literature, i.e., in effect, modernism and art-house cinema, does not make up). Only on reading Zikri's yawmiyyat, in which he condescends to discuss his likes and dislikes, to engage with the politics of culture or mention a fellow Egyptian writer like the dentist and best-selling author Alaa El-Aswany or his own former mentor Edwar El-Kharrat, do you begin to appreciate what kind of writer Zikri is. Others – most, I would say – openly seek context and connection, communication. He claims to seek the least contact possible, the smallest number of readers, the company of gods – like Kafka, like Kawabata – who according to him never mix with the rabble. The irony is that it is the rabble-like qualities of his standpoint as a Third World writer that form the substance of his work, informing even the way he interprets Great Literature. Hence the deconstructionism, hence the aversion to politics (a quality Zikri shares with his generation of literati, who are still reacting to the excessive politicisation of literature all through the 1960s and 1970s); hence also the preemptive despair of ever having a readership of his own beyond "the professional reader, the writer and the half-writer". (It strikes me now that in his systematic self-assuredness, Zikri does recall Al-Mutanabbi, not only arguably the greatest Arab poet of all time but also, famously or notoriously, the most conceited.)
I have always been… subject to the signal to start working… which requires me to be completely devoted and constantly ready to receive [it] whenever it might come… (17.)
Few writers have dedicated as much attention or energy as Zikri to analysing the discontents of their creative process – the nature and magnitude of the emptiness just beneath the surface of their texts. Here as elsewhere in his writing – notably in his last work of fiction, Al-Rasa'il (The Messages, 2006) – Zikri spends time on what might be termed negative productivity: the writing that has not happened, or is yet to happen, but will perhaps never happen. He narrates and describes the state of being idle and homebound in anticipation of (and in deference to) literature.
As piece 34 in Ala Atraf Al-Asabi' demonstrates, Zikri's negative productivity makes perhaps the most convincing case for an existential perspective on the human condition in contemporary Arabic literature. Contrary to his own, noncommittal claims, it resonates far beyond what he recently described to the journalist Ola El-Saket as "those little things which the other writing," the engaged, energetic writing that aims to change the world, "assumes to be of no consequence, the small details that recur every day and which some of us take for granted". Zikri's dilemma has universal relevance: "34. Preparing and arranging, creating an atmosphere, took me a long time, and though I was unemployed on the pretext of waiting for the appropriate moment, that waiting itself was fuelled only by a long time wasted, which I mostly described, with much effort and work, as an inappropriate moment, or at least an inappropriate moment on the way to becoming an appropriate moment."
This kind of thinking generates much needed humour in an otherwise cerebral and dry book. It also goes to show that Zikri is not as solipsistic as he might seem. At least he is aware of the irony inherent to his own narcissism, and not too scared to apply it to himself. We write about what we know best, and all that Zikri knows is sitting in his home thinking about writing; that, along with whatever else his literary anxiety happens to latch onto, is what he will write about.
At the start of the film The Sacrifice by the director Andrie Tarkovsky, Alexander, the hero of the film, asks his son to help him plant a dead tree on the shore of a lake… (27.)
In piece 27 as in numerous other pieces, Zikri – who, working with the filmmaker Osama Fawzi, wrote two of the best Egyptian films of the 1990s – endeavours to rewrite world cinema. Not that the novel/novella format prevented him from indulging his love of film in the past – his 1998 novella is entitled, after Fassbinder's celebrated film, Fear Eats the Soul – but the greater opportunities presented by an "absolutely flexible medium" like yawmiyyat gives him more scope for focusing on particular scenes or techniques – in Hitchcock, in the work of the French New Wave directors, in Tarantino, Bergman – not so much to discuss this or that aspect of a film or a director as simply to see a given cinematic moment from a new and one might say literary angle.
The influence of film on fiction is a huge topic beyond the scope of this Elucidation, but Zikri's screenwriter's insights and his intensely individualist taste act to highlight the way words on a page can recreate and totally alter a scene already lodged in the reader's memory. These pieces seem to reverse the tendency, suggesting new writing that can influence the way we see film. It is as if Zikri, by reference to another medium, is actively showing his reader that the strength of literature is no longer about telling a story but rather about a particular way of seeing or engaging the senses, different from but just as effective as the more predominant audiovisual medium.
Later on in the book, in the course of his bitterly sarcastic critique of Aswany's Yaqoubian Building (2002), piece 45, Zikri says almost as much: "Yet it is enough for the physician Alaa El-Aswany that a reader with no connection to the novel genre can easily read The Yaqoubian Building, relying on his experience of newspaper reading and oral tale-telling that everyone possesses by virtue of birth, community and homeland. It may seem to the reader that watching the novel through the medium of cinema does not deprive him of penetrating to whatever is deepest in Yaqoubian. Since the novel has irrevocably divorced the tradition of style, there is then no need for reading."
While the pastime appeared to have to do with free time, it actually had to do with the meaning of life. (39.)
Zikri is ostensibly speaking of "the satellite and the computer and the telephone", initially "promises of something else, more serious" which he approaches as pastimes "within the frontiers of the house". But here as elsewhere in this remarkably diverse book, he is also intimating a holistic world view, an idea of human existence as a totality of experience only usually available through philosophy or poetry. It is in this sense perhaps that Zikri might be compared to Borges, despite the incomparably more articulate demeanour and learned background of the latter. Though unlike Zikri Borges has a healthy awareness of context, he remains one of a handful of modern writers the world over who communicate such a sense of the totality of existence with the utmost economy of means. In many of the pieces in this book, Zikri's tight, profoundly thought out constructions evoke the connection between the short, quasi-narrative text and the prose poem – another thing Borges manages to do, even though the great Argentine, once again unlike Zikri, wrote poems which he presented as such.
The one major difference between Zikri and Borges – between Zikri and most writers of Borges's – is the latter's capacity for antagonising his readers, often by overwhelming with unnecessary references. Borges in particular was known to say that, unless one is writing a scholarly monograph or a work of science, a text should always be appealing enough for the reader not to have to exert any effort reading it. More Joycean than Borgesian in this respect, Zikri cares little for the enjoyment of the reader. In fact he sets out to antagonise "the reader with whom I have no connection", the rabble representative for whom there is no room among the gods, or so he says. And yet in most instances – in spite of himself? – Zikri produces an eminently enjoyable text. Is this yet another intractable contradiction presented by his work?
And in this world in which all truths stand against each other on an equal footing, meaning becomes an adventure, an endless game of mix and match. (49.)
Nowhere else is Zikri's idea of literature more eloquently expressed (literature being an inclusive term that also covers philosophy and film, the two subjects in which he earned degrees, as well as the life of the writer, the writer's "style" or way of using words, and perhaps also the human condition). It is not as eccentric an idea as he makes it out to be. Romantic and postmodern in equal parts, the notion of writing as a sublime but ultimately meaningless game echoes in the widest variety of contexts, from Wittgenstein to Orientalism. The fact that Zikri refrains from formulating it, never saying more by way of justifying his chosen profession than that it is "a private pleasure", is hardly surprising.
The disorienting combination of Third World postmodernism and puritanical Great Literature reflects the contradiction between Zikri's thoroughly fragmentary, deconstructionist method and his all but classical outlook. Far from undermining the credibility of his work, it is perhaps this very contradiction, negative productivity – and the incumbent rejection of any possibility of popular recognition or "success" – that makes Zikri, all things considered, among the most important writers working in Arabic today.


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What is UK Pole Dance Day and how did it start?
• UK Pole Dance Day is a national, annual event held on 1 May that celebrates and promotes understanding of pole dance as a legitimate art form and form of exercise.
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• Founded in 2009 by the Equity Pole Dancers' Working Party.
• May Day was chosen as the date to encourage a better understanding of pole dance. Traditional maypole dances form part of the May Day celebrations and UKPDD builds on this great tradition.

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This is the webpage for the Paleoecology Section of the Ecological Society of America. Paleoecology is defined broadly as retrospective ecology on a variety of timescales. We are one of the oldest sections of ESA. We consist of approximately 200 members.
The next (97th) Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America will be held August 5-10, 2012, in Portland, OR. This meeting's theme is "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems. This is the major meeting for our section. Section events will be listed here.
We are currently accepting applications for the Edward S. Deevey Award for Student Excellence in Paleoecology. If you meet the criteria, please download the application form and email a completed copy to: email@example.com.
We have issued a call to action for members interested in serving the section! Please contact current chair Jacquelyn Gill if you are interested in any of the elected leadership positions for 2011-2012. Elections will be held at the section business meeting.
Become a member of the Paleoecology Section (an extra $5 with membership in the Ecological Society of America).
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New transfer pricing legislation introduced into Parliament
New transfer pricing legislation introduced into Parliament
The Tax Laws Amendment (Countering Tax Avoidance and Multinational Profit Shifting) Bill 2013 (the bill) has been introduced into the Australian Parliament, including amendments designed to modernise Australia's transfer pricing rules. While the transfer pricing aspects of the bill replicate – for the most part – the Exposure Draft (ED) legislation released in late 2012, changes have been made which arguably 'water down' some of the more controversial aspects of the ED. Nevertheless, it is disappointing that more of the concerns expressed during consultation on the ED have not been addressed.
The release of the bill came a day after the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its report on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS Report). The BEPS Report highlights the need for actions to be implemented to curtail base erosion and profit shifting through avenues including transfer pricing. This provides an interesting backdrop for the evolution of Australia's transfer pricing rules, particularly given the Government's decision to include reformed general anti-avoidance provisions and transfer pricing provisions in the same bill.
Currently, Australia's transfer pricing rules comprise three sets of provisions: Subdivision 815-A of the Income Tax Assessment Act (ITAA) 1997, the existing laws in Division 13 of the ITAA 1936, and the transfer pricing articles in Australia's double taxation treaties. The proposed changes to the transfer pricing rules will apply to income years commencing on or after the earlier of their date of enactment or 1 July 2013. The new laws will repeal Division 13, and Subdivision 815-A will not apply to income years to which the new laws apply. It is expected that the bill could pass through Parliament before the end of March 2013. The new rules will apply both in a treaty and non-treaty context.
The main points of interest in the bill are summarised below.
Self-assessment - The proposed new operative provisions (Subdivisions 815-B and 815-C of the ITAA 1997) will be self-executing in their operation, unlike Division 13 and Subdivision 815-A, which apply through the making of a determination by the Commissioner. Practically speaking, this means taxpayers must address compliance with the new provisions in lodging their income tax returns. Despite the new rules operating on a self-assessment basis, taxpayers can only self-assess to increase taxable profits.
Time limit for amendments - Previously there has been no limitation on the period in which the Commissioner could amend an assessment to give effect to a transfer pricing adjustment. An eight-year amendment period was proposed in the ED, which has been reduced to seven years in the bill. There is no time limit on the Commissioner's ability to ascertain additional amounts of withholding tax payable under Subdivision 815-B, or the Commissioner's ability to make consequential adjustments.
Endorsement of OECD material - Proposed Subdivisions 815-B and 815-C must be applied "so as best to achieve consistency with" the OECD's Transfer Pricing Guidelines and Model Tax Convention and its Commentaries. In addition, some aspects of the OECD Guidelines have been "unpacked" into the legislation itself, (i.e. the most appropriate method rule and comparability factors for selecting and applying arm's length pricing methods). Thankfully, the wording in the ED qualifying that OECD guidance did not need to be considered "where a contrary intention appeared", has been removed in the bill.
Reconstruction - The greatest concern expressed in consultation on the ED was the breadth of the proposed reconstruction power given the Commissioner's ability to substitute arm's length conditions and look to the underlying economic substance of transactions. Helpfully, the Explanatory Memorandum (EM) to the bill states that the new provisions are only intended to be applied by disregarding and/or reconstructing the actual transactions in the "exceptional circumstances" prescribed in the OECD Guidelines; however, the drafting of the provisions raises concerns as to whether the bill reflects that intention.
Documentation and penalties - In line with the ED, the bill states that failure to prepare the required transfer pricing documentation by the time the relevant tax return is lodged will mean that an entity cannot have a Reasonably Arguable Position (RAP) for penalty purposes. The content and focus of transfer pricing documentation will be required to change to address the new rules, particularly in respect of substantiating arm's length conditions and aligning the actual conditions to arm's length conditions.
Broadening of the 'transfer pricing benefit' concept to withholding tax - The bill includes an additional, specific provision enabling the transfer pricing rules to be applied where a taxpayer has received a withholding tax benefit by virtue of non-arm's length conditions (e.g. due to reduced interest or royalty payments).
Some other key aspects of the new rules, consistent with the ED, include:
Financing - There are specific provisions regarding the interaction of the thin capitalisation and transfer pricing rules, such that a taxpayer with international related-party borrowings may be required to show that the amount of its debt is arm's length for purposes of pricing that debt.
Definition of arm's length conditions - The new rules allow for the substitution of arm's length conditions where an entity receives a transfer pricing benefit by virtue of non-arm's length conditions operating between it and its international related parties. The new rules therefore require "postulation of how independent entities in comparable circumstances would have dealt with one another had they been dealing at arm's length."
Profit attribution to permanent establishments (PEs) - Subdivision 815-C is intended to simply "modernise" the drafting of Division 13 as regards PE profit attribution while retaining the "relevant business activity" approach which involves an arm's length allocation of an entity's actual income and expenditure to its PE. The Board of Taxation is due to report to the Government by the end of April 2013 as to whether Australia should adopt the authorised OECD approach (a "functionally separate entity" approach) for PE profit attribution, and we could see further reform in this area in the near future.
In conclusion
The new transfer pricing rules are designed to ensure that "the amount brought to tax in Australia from cross-border conditions that operate between entities reflects the arm's length contribution made by an entity's Australian operations." While the ATO contends that it is very much 'business as usual' in terms of administering the transfer pricing provisions and the ATO's approach to cases, taxpayers must now do the work to apply the arm's length principle in determining taxable income before lodging their income tax returns.
Introduction of the bill into Parliament comes at a time when the Australian tax landscape for multinationals is changing rapidly. In addition to the proposed new transfer pricing rules, there is also a specialist reference group reviewing the taxation of multinationals, members of Parliament and the media are aggressively attacking multinationals' tax practices, and the Inspector General of Taxation is reviewing the ATO's management of transfer pricing matters. And all of this is against a global backdrop of the OECD's work on base erosion and profit shifting, and a G20 that is increasingly interested in 'fixing' an international corporate tax system that is seen as broken as a result of the world economy's recent evolution.
This environment is giving rise to significant challenges for dealing with transfer pricing issues, and means that it is more important than ever for taxpayers to ensure they are satisfied that their taxable incomes reflect arm's length conditions and that their cross-border arrangements are commercial.


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MCC promotes sustainable farming in North Korea
Tim Shenk
July 29, 2009
AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is launching a project to help farmers in North Korea produce more grain through environmentally sustainable practices.
North Korea, officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has experienced serious food shortages in recent years, and MCC has donated tens of thousands of tons of food to people in the DPRK since 1995.
MCC is undertaking the new project to help farmers in the DPRK increase their harvests of rice, wheat, barley and corn through what is known as "conservation agriculture."
Conservation agriculture aims to increase organic matter and nutrients in the soil, boost yields and minimize expensive inputs such as fertilizer and fuel, according to James Frey, an MCC worker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who is coordinating the project.
For example, conservation agriculture involves leaving crop stubble to decompose in the fields and avoiding plowing in order to protect beneficial organisms that recycle soil nutrients. It can also involve planting clover and other "cover crops" between harvests to protect and enrich the soil.
Frey says that conservation agriculture is especially well-suited to the DPRK, where fuel and fertilizer are in short supply. Since 2006, tensions over the DPRK's nuclear program have caused countries such as South Korea to halt fertilizer shipments and other aid the country. Many farmers in the DPRK now receive only about one quarter of the fertilizer they need, according to Frey.
MCC is planning to provide agricultural equipment, supplies and training to three cooperative farms in Bongchon County, Sariwon City and Hwangju County in southern DPRK. Each farm has several thousand residents who live and work together.
Frey made his introductory visit to the farms in April with three MCC colleagues.
"We got the impression that from the youngest to the oldest, everyone was involved," Frey says.
During that visit, farmers and government officials did not speak directly about the problems of hunger and malnutrition, which stunt the growth of more than one third of children in the DPRK, according to the World Health Organization.
However, Frey observed that everyone involved in the project seemed very focused on the need to increase production at the communal farms. The farms provide roughly three-quarters of their harvests to the government, and the government distributes food to the general population.
Frey plans to visit the DPRK about four times per year to coordinate the project until its completion in December 2011. He is currently working on providing the cooperative farms with "no-till seeders," which are seed-planting machines designed for unplowed fields.
MCC laid some of the groundwork for the conservation agriculture project by hosting a delegation of DPRK officials on an educational visit to Canada in 2008.
The delegation visited a variety of farms and agricultural research centers in British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario — and also spent time with the MCC Ontario board of directors and volunteers at Fraser Valley Gleaners, a Christian organization in Abbotsford, B.C. The Fraser Valley Gleaners have provided food for MCC shipments to orphanages and tuberculosis hospitals in the DPRK.
"We also wanted this to be about relationship-building," says Kathi Suderman, an MCC Northeast Asia representative from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
MCC's budget for the conservation agriculture project is $1 million U.S., which includes money from MCC's account with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, an organization that receives funds from Canadian farmers and the Canadian government.
Financial contributions for this project should be designated "North Korea" and may be made online at mcc.org/donate or through any MCC office.


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John Anthony Walker
|John Anthony Walker
John Anthony Walker circa 1985
28 July 1937
Washington, DC, USA[1]
|United States
|United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist[2]
|Barbara Crowley (divorced)
|financial gain
John Anthony Walker Jr. (born 28 July 1937 in Washington, DC)[1] is a former United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985.[2] In late 1985, Walker reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, which required him to testify against his conspirator, former Senior Chief Petty Officer Jerry Whitworth, and provide full details of his espionage activities. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to a lesser sentence for Walker's son, former Seaman Michael Walker, who was also involved in the spy ring.[2] During his time as a Soviet spy, Walker helped the Soviets decipher more than one million encrypted naval messages,[3] organizing a spy operation that The New York Times reported in 1987 "is sometimes described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history."[4]
After Walker's arrest, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, concluded that the Soviet Union made significant gains in naval warfare attributable to Walker's spying. Weinberger stated that the information Walker gave Moscow allowed the Soviets "access to weapons and sensor data and naval tactics, terrorist threats, and surface, submarine, and airborne training, readiness and tactics."[5] John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration, stated in an interview that Walker's activities enabled the Soviets to know where U.S. submarines were at all times. Lehman said the Walker espionage would have resulted in huge loss of American lives in the event of war.
In the June 2010 issue of Naval History Magazine, John Prados, a senior fellow with the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, pointed out that after Walker introduced himself to Soviet officials, North Korean forces seized the USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in order to make better use of Walker's spying. Prados added that North Korea subsequently shared information gleaned from the spy ship with the Soviets, enabling them to build replicas and gain access to the US naval communications system, which continued until the system was completely revamped in the late-1980s.
Early life[edit]
Born in Washington D.C.,[1] Walker enlisted in the Navy in 1955 when, arrested for burglary, he was offered the option of jail or the military.[1][6] While stationed in Boston, Walker met and married Barbara Crowley, and they had four children together, three daughters and a son. While stationed on the nuclear-powered Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) in Charleston, South Carolina, Walker opened a bar which failed to turn a profit and immediately plunged him into debt.[1]
Spy ring[edit]
Walker began spying for the Soviets in December 1967,[7] when, distraught over his financial difficulties, he walked into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, sold a top secret document (a radio cipher card) for several thousand dollars, and negotiated an ongoing salary of $500 to $1,000 a week.[1] Walker has justified his treachery by claiming that the first classified Navy communications data he had sold to the Soviets had already been completely compromised when the North Koreans had captured the US Navy communications surveillance ship, the USS Pueblo.[8] Yet the Koreans captured the Pueblo in January 1968 — just one month after Walker had betrayed the information. Furthermore, a 2001 thesis presented at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College using information from Soviet archives and from Oleg Kalugin, indicates that the Pueblo incident may have taken place because the Soviets wanted to study equipment described in documents supplied to them by Walker.[9]
Walker continued spying, receiving an income of several thousand dollars per month for supplying classified information.[1] While Walker occasionally used the services of his wife, Barbara Walker, he began seeking further assistance in 1969 when, stationed to teach radio operators in San Diego, California, he befriended student Jerry Whitworth.[1] Whitworth, who would become a Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer/Senior Chief Radioman, agreed to assist Walker in accessing highly-classified communications data in 1973.[1] A transfer had stopped Walker's access to the data the Soviets wanted, but he was able to recruit Whitworth to keep the data flowing by telling him the data would be going to Israel, an ally of the United States, in order to soften the consideration of Whitworth engaging in espionage. Later, when Whitworth realized the data was going to the Soviets instead of Israel, he nonetheless continued feeding it to Walker until his retirement from the Navy in 1983. In 1976, Walker retired from the Navy in order to give up his security clearance, as he believed certain superior officers of his were too keen on investigating lapses in his records. Walker and Barbara also divorced. However, Walker did not end his espionage, and began looking more aggressively among his children and family members for assistance (Walker was a private detective at this time). By 1984, he had recruited his older brother Arthur, a retired Lieutenant Commander who then went to work at a military contractor, and his son Michael, an active duty seaman.[1] Walker had also attempted to recruit his youngest daughter, who had enlisted in the US Army, but she cut her military career short when she became pregnant. Walker then turned his attention to his son, who had drifted during much of his teenage years and dropped out of high school. Walker gained custody of his son, put him to work as an apprentice at his detective agency in order to prepare him for espionage and encouraged him to re-enroll in high school to earn a diploma, then to enlist in the Navy.
When Walker began spying, he worked as a key supervisor in the communications center for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's submarine force, and he would have had knowledge of top secret technologies, such as the SOSUS underwater surveillance system which tracks submarine traffic via a network of submerged hydrophones.[10][11] It was through Walker that the Soviets became aware that the US Navy was able to track the location of Soviet submarines by the cavitation produced by their propellers. After this, the propellers on the Soviet submarines were improved to reduce cavitation.[12] The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal was disclosed in this activity in 1987.[13] It is also alleged that Walker's actions precipitated the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo. CIA historian H. Keith Melton states on the show "Top Secrets of the CIA" which aired on the Military Channel, among other occasions, at 0400CST, Feb. 5, 2013, that "They [referring to the Soviets] had intercepted our coded messages, but they had never been able to read them. And with Walker providing the code cards, this was one-half of what they needed to read the messages. The other half they needed were the machines themselves. Though Walker could give them repair manuals, he couldn't give them machines. So, within a month of John Walker volunteering his services, the Soviets arranged, through the North Koreans, to hijack a US Navy ship with its cipher machines, and that was the U.S.S. Pueblo. And in early 1968, they captured the Pueblo, they took it into Wonsan Harbor, they quickly took the machines off..flew 'em to Moscow. Now Moscow had both parts of the puzzles. They had the machine and they had an American spy, in place, in Norfolk, with the code cards and with access to them."
In 1990, New York Times journalist John J. O'Connor reported, "It's been estimated by some intelligence experts that Mr. Walker provided enough code-data information to alter significantly the balance of power between Russia and the United States".[14] Asked later how he had managed to access so much classified information, Walker said, "KMart has better security than the Navy".[15] According to a report presented to the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive in 2002, Walker is one of a handful of spies believed to have earned more than a million dollars in espionage compensation,[6] although The New York Times estimated his income at only $350,000.[14]
Arrest and imprisonment[edit]
By May 1985, John and Barbara Walker had divorced and Barbara, upset by John's refusal to pay her alimony, reported his spying to the FBI.[1] Following an investigation, the FBI arrested Walker, Whitworth, Arthur Walker, and Michael Walker. Ironically, Walker himself was arrested at a motel in Montgomery County, Maryland, using a trick he used to catch people in adultery cases: telephoning his hotel room and telling him his car had been hit in an accident.[1] Barbara Walker was not prosecuted because of her role in disclosing the ring.[1][6] Former KGB agent Victor Cherkashin, however, details in his book Spy Handler that Walker was compromised by an FBI spy named "Martynov," who overheard officials in Moscow speaking about Walker.[16]
Walker cooperated with authorities and in a plea bargain, he agreed to submit to an unchallenged conviction and life sentence, provide a full disclosure of the details of his spying, and give testimony against Whitworth in exchange for a pledge from the prosecutors that his son would receive a sentence of no more than 25 years imprisonment.[2][17] All of the members of the spy ring besides Michael Walker received life sentences for their role in the espionage. Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000 for his involvement. Whitworth is currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Atwater, a high security federal prison in California.
Walker's son Michael, who had a relatively minor role in the ring and agreed to testify in exchange for a reduced sentence, was released from prison on parole in February 2000.[1]
Walker is currently incarcerated at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex (low security portion) in Butner, North Carolina.[18] He is said to be suffering from diabetes and stage IV throat cancer.[1][19] He is scheduled for release on May 20, 2015,[20] at which point he will have served 30 years in prison.
See also[edit]
- KL-7 "Adonis" cipher machine (US Navy 1950s - 1970s)
- KW-37 "Jason" cipher system (US Navy 1950s - 1990s)
- USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3) Ship aboard which Walker served as (CMS) Custodian
- Hans-Thilo Schmidt
- 1985: The Year of the Spy
- Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage — a book that includes a description of the Walker spy ring role in its dangerous compromise of technical secrets of some of the vital tactical capabilities of US Navy nuclear submarines and critical covert intelligence gathering operations during the Cold War.
- Family of Spies - TV movie based on John Walker's treason.
- Hitori Kumagai
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Earley, Pete. Family of spies: the John Walker Jr. spy case CourtTV Crime Library. Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Recent US Spy Case CNN. Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ 米海軍スパイ事件の教訓 070630aquisionresearch_spring 「防衛取得研究」(第一巻 第一号)(平成19年06月)<PDF>
- ^ Shenon, Philip. (Jan 4, 1987) In short: nonfiction. NY Times. Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2010-06/navys-biggest-betrayal
- ^ a b c Herbig, Katherine L. and Martin F. Wiskoff. (July 2002) Espionage against the United States by American citizens, 1947-2001. ONCIX website. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ Sontag, Sherry; Drew, Christopher; Annette Lawrence Drew (November 1998). Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (paperback reprint ed.). New York City: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-103004-X. OCLC 42633517.
- ^ KW-7 and John Walker John Walker USS Pueblo
- ^ Analysis of the Systemic Security Weaknesses of the US Navy Fleet Broadcasting System, 1967–1974, as Exploited by CWO John Walker (PDF) Master's thesis by Laura J. Heath
- ^ "The John Walker Spy Case: Secrets of the Deep Agent May be Linked to USS Pueblo". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 18, 1986.[dead link]
- ^ Cold War Strategic ASW Cold War Strategic ASW UNDERSEAWARFARE
- ^ "Eaglespeak".
- ^ a b O'Connor, John J. (February 4, 1990) TV View; American spies in pursuit of the American dream NY Times. Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ Johnson, Reuben F. (Jul 23 2007) The ultimate export control: why F-14s are being put into a shredder The Weekly Standard. Volume 012, Issue 42. Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ Cherkashin, Victor. Spy Handler. New York: Basic Books, 2005. (Page 183)
- ^ Time Magazine, Belated concern, Time, Inc. (November 11, 1985) Accessed November 16, 2007.
- ^ Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
- ^ How to Publish a Book by an Odious Person Washington Post. Accessed August 26, 2013.
- ^ Prados, John (June 2010). "The Navy's Biggest Betrayal". Naval History Magazine 24 (3). Retrieved December 17, 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- John Barron; Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987, ISBN 0-395-42110-1
- Howard Blum; I Pledge Allegiance: The True Story of the Walkers: an American Spy Family; Simon & Schuster Books, 1987, ISBN 0-671-62614-0
- Kneece, Jack; Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case; Paperjacks, 1988, ISBN 0-7701-0793-1
- Robert W. Hunter; Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case; Naval Institute Press, 1999, ISBN 1-55750-349-4
- Pete Earley; Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring; Bantam Books, 1989, ISBN 0-553-28222-0
- "The Navy's Biggest Betrayal", Naval History Magazine
- Walker, John Anthony; My Life As a Spy; Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59102-659-4
- Walker, Laura; Daughter of Deceit: The Human Drama Behind the Walker Spy Case; W Pub Group, 1988, ISBN 978-0849906596
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At first glance, many people will doubt Roselia's effectiveness in UU due to its frail physical defense, low Speed, and the existence of better Grass-types. However, if you take a closer glance at its movepool, you will find that it has a interesting variety of moves that give it its own special niche. Unlike the common Grass-types, Roselia has access to the ever-so-useful Spikes, in addition to Toxic Spikes, and the ability to absorb status with ease thanks to Natural Cure. Roselia also comes equipped with a high base 100 Special Attack, which ties with the omnipresent Venusaur. Last but not least, Roselia's usable base 80 Special Defense gives it plenty of opportunities to set up deadly entry hazards on helpless foes. As long as you abuse its niches to their fullest, Roselia can be well worth the use.
If your team is in need of a Pokemon that is able to set up Spikes and take on many defensive threats, Spikes Roselia may indeed be the Pokemon for you. Roselia is one of two Grass-types with access to Spikes (the other being Cacturne) and has the typing and Special Defense necessary to set up Spikes on many Pokemon. Milotic, Registeel, Chansey, Rotom, and even some Venusaur (although it may require the -2 Special Attack drop from Leaf Storm first) can all be Spiked upon with ease. If Roselia's HP drops too much, Synthesis or Leech Seed can be used to restore health, while its ability, Natural Cure, cures any status ailments afflicted upon Roselia. Stun Spore can be a huge boost for Roselia by paralyzing offensive threats, especially since there are no other viable status moves available (Sleep Powder and Spikes are illegal together). Common switch-ins to this set include Arcanine, Moltres, and Mismagius, all of which are extremely hindered and almost unusable after being paralyzed with Stun Spore. To prevent Roselia from being stopped completely by Taunt, Energy Ball is used in the last moveslot. Energy Ball also deals impressive damage to many common Rapid Spinners, including Donphan, Kabutops, and Blastoise.
Synthesis is the preferred option over Leech Seed, as Synthesis gives Roselia a reliable recovery move that can't be blocked by immunities, missing, or Substitute. However, Leech Seed can force more switches, giving it more time to use Spikes. The decision ultimately comes down to how long you wish to keep Roselia alive. If its purpose on your team is to set up Spikes whenever possible and just sit as a filler, Leech Seed is probably the better option. However, if you want Roselia to be able to stay alive and be a decent answer to many Rapid Spinners as well as other special attackers, Synthesis is much better. The last attack should usually be Energy Ball to deal with Rapid Spinners, but Sludge Bomb is the stronger STAB attack. However, Sludge Bomb has many problems as an attacking move, allowing Pokemon such as Rhyperior to set up easily on it and giving Milotic an easier time surviving and eventually damaging Roselia.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
This set takes a much more offensive approach that is still designed to set up entry hazards. Egg move limitations prevent Roselia from running certain move combinations, meaning that which form of Spikes you want to run will influence the rest of the moveset.
Sleep Powder and Leaf Storm, both of which are illegal with Spikes and are meant to be used with Toxic Spikes, turn Roselia into a fierce weapon that can force switches, giving it even more chances to use Toxic Spikes. Leaf Storm has 210 Base Power after factoring in STAB, making Roselia a frightening threat. The last slot is saved for Sludge Bomb, which gives great neutral coverage all-around. Spikes is an alternative over Toxic Spikes for laying the hurt on every grounded Pokemon, while not being easily absorbed by Poison-types, unlike Toxic Spikes. If you opt for Spikes, then running Synthesis and Energy Ball over Sleep Powder and Leaf Storm, respectively, is a must. Synthesis gives Roselia a instant recovery move that allows for more set up time throughout a match, while Energy Ball enables Roselia to deal consistent damage overall.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
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Every viable option for Roselia is mentioned in this analysis. The only moves with some use that are not given a mention are Cotton Spore and Aromatherapy. However, there is almost no need to temporarily lower an opponent's Speed with Cotton Spore when Stun Spore will permanently disable it, and Roselia cannot waste turns using Aromatherapy, especially when there are much more capable Pokemon that can use it.
Checks and Counters
Roselia's low defenses and average Speed give it a disadvantage against many Pokemon. Fire-types, Flying-types, and hard-hitting Pokemon in general can easily kill it. Pokemon that set up, such as Mismagius and Swords Dance Scyther, can also easily kill it and get free turns to set up. If a Rapid Spinner manages to spin, then Roselia becomes almost dead weight, as it will be unlikely for it to re-set up its entry hazards again, given the scenarios.


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• Delaware is the last undefeated team in conference play at 11-0, while Drexel and James Madison follow with a 9-2 records. Old Dominion and Hofstra follow tied at 7-3.
• Delaware's Elena Delle Donne became the CAA's all-time leading scorer with 2,677 career points on Feb. 10 during the Blue Hens' win at James Madison, as she passed the Dukes' former all-star Dawn Evans who held the record at 2,667 since 2011. She is also closing in on a number of other CAA career marks, full list on Page 13.
• Hofstra's Shante Evans became the first player in Hofstra women's basketball history to score 2,000 career points with her layup in the final minute at Georgia State on Feb. 10.
• Delaware steadied at No. 20 in the most recent AP Top 25 Poll (Feb. 11). The Blue Hens also entered the USA Today/Coaches Poll last week at No. 23 (Feb. 4). The Blue Hens were picked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive week in the CollegeInsider.com's Mid-Major Poll & Drexel followed at #23.
• Hofstra's Shante Evans, who leads the nation in active career double-doubles, recently became the Pride's all-time scoring leader and previously this season became the Pride's all-time rebounding leader. There are only three other active women's players who are also their school's all-time scoring and rebounding leader.
• The CAA Women's Basketball Championship will return to the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland in 2013 for the third straight season (Mar. 14-17). Credential forms have been sent out -- if you have not received one, please contact Niki DeSantis at the CAA office.
• The 11 CAA teams have posted a 64-60 record in the season in non-conference play.
• The most recent RPIRatings.com report posted that the CAA was ranked 14th among the 33 conferences with Delaware ranked at 21 leading the CAA.
• The College of Charleston has accepted an invitation of membership to join the CAA beginning July 2013.
Elena Delle Donne • Delaware
Wilmington, Del./Ursuline, Sr., Guard/Forward
Delle Donne earned her fifth CAA Player of the Week award this season after a record breaking week. Delle Donne became the CAA's all-time leading scorer Sunday after tallying 20 points in the Blue Hen's 71-64 victory at James Madison. She sits at 2,677 career points, passing JMU's Dawn Evans (2,667) to claim the scoring record. Delle Donne averaged a double-double of 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in 34.5 minutes of play per game this past week, while chipping in 2.5 assist and 2.5 blocks per game. She helped #20/23 Delaware earn a pair of conference wins over Towson and JMU, while shooting 13-for-26 (.500) from the field and 12-for-14 (.857) from the free throw line.
Shante Evans • Hofstra
West Chester, Pa./Henderson, Sr., Forward
Evans picked up her second CAA Player of the Week award this season after averaging a double-double with 18 points and 12.3 rebounds per game in the Pride's three contests last week. Evans became the first player in Hofstra's women's basketball history to score 2,000 career points after scoring 19 points in the Pride's 72-59 win over Georgia State. The senior forward also tallied four blocks and seven steals, while shooting close to 70 percent from the field (23-34) to help lead the Pride to a 2-1 record last week. Evans has scored in double figures in 20 of 21 games this season and leads the conference with 14 double-doubles this season.
Dominique Johnson • Towson
Laurel, Md./Riverdale Baptist, Fr., Guard
Johnson had a solid week for the Tigers averaging 14 points in 3.5 rebounds per game en route to earning her second CAA Rookie of the Week honor. She started her week with 14 points and five rebounds against Drexel while finishing 4-4 at the free-throw stripe. On Thursday against Delaware, Johnson posted 14 points and two rebounds, while chipping in five assists and five steals. She was perfect from the line for the Tigers (9-9) on the week and averaged nearly double her points on the week from her season average of 8.1 ppg.
CAA AT NO. 14 IN RPI RANKING (Through Feb. 10): The CAA is ranked 14th among the nation's 33 Division I conferences in women's basketball according to the RPI report compiled by Collegiate Basketball News. Delaware jumped to No. 21 in the team RPI ranking. Drexel (76) and James Madison (99) both joined UD in the Top 100, while Northeastern (106), Hofstra (128), and Old Dominion (136) round out the CAA teams in the Top 200.
CAA IN THE TOP 25: The Delaware Blue Hens, who are now 20-3, steadied in the Associated Press Poll Top 25 to No. 20 after returning at No. 25 two weeks ago. The Blue Hens also entered the USA Today Coaches Poll for the first time since No. 19 at No. 23 on Feb. 4. Delaware opened the 2011-12 and 2010-11 seasons receiving votes in the AP Poll, but it was the first time in program history that the Blue Hens were ranked in the preseason. The Blue Hens were ranked in the AP Top 25 for 16 weeks during their record-setting season a year ago. UD went undefeated (18-0) in league play and claimed the conference tournament title in 2012. Delaware, which finished last season with a 31-2 record, climbed as high as seventh in the national rankings and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Second Round following its first postseason win in school history. All-American Elena Delle Donne recently returned after missing six contests this season, as she had been sitting out during treatment for Lyme Disease.
TWO CAA TEAMS RANKED NO. 1 IN COLLEGEINSIDER.COM MID-MAJOR POLL: Delaware improved to No. 1 in the CollegeInsider.com Feb. 5 edition of the mid-major poll with 28 first-place votes, while Drexel continued to be ranked in the Top 25 improving to No. 22. James Madison (55) also received votes. The women's Mid-Major Top 25 is comprised of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast Conferences.
AWAITING A SPOT AMONG NATIONAL LEADERS: Delaware's Elena Delle Donne is averaging 24.6 points per game. Delle Donne is not currently listed among the CAA or national leaders, due to her six games missed earlier this season, but if she continues to play every game and continues her stellar scoring she should join the CAA & national leaders after the Feb. 14th game. To be ranked, a player must appear in at least 75 percent of their team's games. Delle Donne led the nation in 2011-12 scoring 28.1 points per game. In 2010-11, she missed 11 games while being treated for Lyme Disease symptoms, but played in 22 contests scoring 25.3 ppg -- Oral Roberts' Kevi Luper led the nation in 10-11 averaging 23.7 ppg. Delle Donne ranked third nationally at the conclusion of her rookie campaign after pouring in 26.7 points per game in 29 outings.
DELLE DONNE TOPS CAA HISTORY MARKS: Delaware's Elena Delle Donne is just notches away from hitting the number one spot in numerous categories in the CAA record books (list on page 13). Delle Donne recently became the league's all-time scoring leader with 2,677 career points surpassing James Madison's Dawn Evans for first in the CAA history with 2,667 career points on Feb. 10. The senior tied Drexel's Gabriela Marginean in field goals made at 904 on Feb. 10 against the Dukes. The All-American also needs just to make three free throws to pass Gabriela Marginean's (684) career mark in CAA history. The senior forward/guard is just 18 free throw attempts away from tying Marginean (769) in a career, but Hofstra's Shante Evans needs just 10 to tie Marginean at this point and the battle for the top will come down to the "line".
DELLE DONNE MAKES TOP 20 WOODEN AWARD MID-SEASON LIST: Delaware's Elena Delle Donne was named to the John R. Wooden Award Women's Mid-Season Top 20. The senior landed herself on another prestigious honor list as the only non-BCS nominee listed. The Big East led all conferences with six selections, followed by the ACC with four, the Big 12 and Big 10 with three each, the SEC has two, the CAA and Pac-12 with one apiece.
HOFSTRA'S HISTORY BOOKS: Senior forward Shante Evans set the program's all-time scoring record on Jan. 13 against George Mason and currently has 2,001 career points. Evans, who is averaging a team-leading 17.4 points, became Hofstra's first 2,000-career point scorer on Feb. 10. Evans became Hofstra's all-time leading rebounder on Nov. 28 and currently has 1,244 rebounds and also ranks in the CAA top 10. Entering this season, Evans has averaged over 330 rebounds per year during her career with the Pride. The CAA record is held by James Madison's Meredith Alexis (2004-07) with 1,313 and Evans is on pace to challenge Alexis' mark this season.
HIGH-NUMBERS: Hofstra's Shante Evans, who currently has 2,001 career points and 1,244 career rebounds, ranks among some of the top current players in the nation regarding her career numbers. Evans is third among players who have passed 1,600 points and 1,000 rebounds, as Howard's Saadia Doyle (2,115 pts, 1094 rbs) and Baylor's Brittney Griner (2,943 pts, 1,160 rbs) rank higher than her. Evans ranks at #50 among the all-time list currently with stats dating back to 1999-00 in the same category and if we shorten the list to 1,900 points and 1,100 rebounds all-time Evans ranks at #34 among stats dating back to 1999-00.
DOUBLE-TROUBLE ALL-TIME LEADERS: In addition to Hofstra's Shante Evans, there are only three other active women's players who are also their school's all-time scoring and rebounding leader. Sametria Gideon from Kennesaw State, Loyola Marymount's Alex Cowling and Northern Arizona's Amy Patton are their program's all-time scoring and rebound leaders.
IN THE [CAA RECORD] BOOKS: Shante Evans entered the CAA's top 10 list in career scoring on Jan. 6 and entered the CAA record books in field goals made in a career on Jan. 20. The senior most recently entered the record book in field goals attempted in a career on Feb. 3. Delaware's Elena Delle Donne jumped into the CAA's top 10 list in free throws attempted, while Georgia State's Cody Paulk entered the league's top 10 list in blocked shots during the week ending Dec. 30. On the first weekend of the 2012-13 season the league had two women's basketball players crack the CAA all-time record books -- JMU's Kirby Burkholder sank seven three pointers against Virginia, while William & Mary's Emily Correal grabbed 21 rebounds against East Carolina. Kirby's seven trey's ranks her tied for ninth in the CAA record books, while Correal's 21 rebounds is tied for fifth for rebounds in a single game. Hofstra's Shante Evans jumped into the CAA record books in career rebounds on Nov. 28th. Full list of updated CAA career record book listings are on page 13 of these notes.
REACHING THE MILESTONE - 1,000 CAREER POINTS: Delaware's Danielle Parker became the most recent CAA player to register her 1,000th career point on Feb. 7 as she became the 24th player in Delaware WBB history to reach the milesone. The Blue Hens now have three 1k career scorers currently on the team. Northeastern's Deanna Kerkhof is the 15th player in Northeastern's program to reach 1,000 career points as she passed the milestone on Jan. 24 with a three-pointer in the contest against Drexel. Drexel's Hollie Mershon became the Dragon's 20th player in program history to reach 1,000 career points on Dec. 21 after pouring in a team-high 23 points. Delaware's Lauren Carra reached 1,000 career points as she tallied 16 against nationally-ranked Maryland on Dec. 20. Carra became the 23rd Blue Hens to reach the plateau. William & Mary's Emily Correal poured in a career-high 28 points against Radford on Dec. 8th and in the same outing became the Tribe's 17th WBB player to reach 1,000 career points. George Mason's Amber Easter and William & Mary's Janine Aldridge have scored their 1,000th career points this season.


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Man, 66, walking poodle butted in face by bull terrier owner in Clover Way, Malvern
10:33am Monday 16th December 2013 in News By Chris Plant, Reporter
A DOG walker was head butted while out walking his poodle.
The 66-year-old man was in Clover Way, Malvern, on Wednesday, December 11, around midday, when he let his five-month-old puppy off the lead.
The poodle approached a dark coloured Staffordshire bull terrier, which was on a long lead held by a young man.
He became aggressive and abusive, threatening to let his dog tear the poodle to bits.
As the poodle owner put his dog back on the lead he was head butted in the face, leaving him with a bloody nose and three chipped teeth.
The young man is described as white, 20 to 22 years old, about 5ft 10 ins tall and of stocky build with blond hair.
He was wearing a dark blue hoody and blue jeans.
He ran off in the direction of the Bluebell Pub on Guarlford Road.
PC Kirsty Edwards from Malvern Police said: "This was a serious assault on an older man just taking his dog out for some exercise.
"This was an unnecessary act of aggression and totally disproportionate to the situation.
"The poodle was simply being friendly towards the other dog."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Malvern police on the non emergency number 101 and ask for PC Edwards quoting incident number 0243S 111213.
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10:49am Mon 16 Dec 13
Andy-Apache says...
And no, I don't mean the dog!
12:01pm Mon 16 Dec 13
citykid says...
12:02pm Mon 16 Dec 13
citykid says...
12:19pm Mon 16 Dec 13
Ted Elgar says...
4:20pm Mon 16 Dec 13
Nortynorse says...
The dogs only get exercised when Jeremy Kyle isn't on the TV or they are off down the Post Office to cash their DOLE cheques, or in a neighbours flat/house "SHOOTING UP"
5:09pm Mon 16 Dec 13
dropkick55 says...
Nortynorse wrote:Since when have there been dole cheques? Giros been gone fore years!
It's amazing that this "Pond Life" of Society are allowed to keep these dogs, they can barely look after themselves.
The dogs only get exercised when Jeremy Kyle isn't on the TV or they are off down the Post Office to cash their DOLE cheques, or in a neighbours flat/house "SHOOTING UP"
You seem to like your tar brush That your painting everyone unemployed with!
8:06pm Mon 16 Dec 13
Nortynorse says...
Since when have there been dole cheques? Giros been gone fore years!
You seem to like your tar brush That your painting everyone unemployed with!
1:10am Tue 17 Dec 13
CYNIC_AL says...
11:07am Tue 17 Dec 13
Andy-Apache says...
I'm sick of this country's liberal ways. He (and his ilk) should be identified, and kicked out of 'his' accomodation. No doubt the whiners would scream 'human rights', but as far as I'm concerned, if you don't behave like a human, then you don't deserve the rights that go with it. Enjoy living on the streets through the winter, scum.
11:19am Tue 17 Dec 13
canuck7 says...
12:49pm Tue 17 Dec 13
Ted Elgar says...
If it's the same family I am thinking of he should think himself jolly lucky he didnt bite his poodle's head off.
Probably just got him on a bad day.
6:36pm Tue 17 Dec 13
susanna24 says...
Why are all of these kind of people who think a dog makes them something special not given something useful to do instead of scrounging, lolloping around and being a burden to the country!!
8:38pm Tue 17 Dec 13
canuck7 says...
susanna24 wrote:Exactly what i was think earlier- quite a few people MUST know who this guy is,sadly in my experience more and more people are TOO SCARED to do the right thing but when it happens to them its a different story then. and like i said- thats what happens if people ignore human vermin it spreads so then there is no hiding eventually!!.
Come on all of you local people to the poolbrook estate mentioned, you must know who this scum is, its a sad world when an elderly gentleman, or anyone else cannot walk such places in safety especially in the middle of the day.
Why are all of these kind of people who think a dog makes them something special not given something useful to do instead of scrounging, lolloping around and being a burden to the country!!
11:57pm Tue 17 Dec 13
Mr crabs says...
1:21pm Wed 18 Dec 13
chriskez says...
Quotes from police officers stating ' the puppy was only being friendly' don't help at all either. How about 'if you are in any doubt as to whether to let your dog investigate another dog, put it on the lead first, then ask the owner if its ok for them to mix'. Every negative encounter between dog owners could be avoided by adopting this simple rule
2:46pm Wed 18 Dec 13
madamebadham says...
As a few of you have demonstrated.
9:37pm Wed 18 Dec 13
canuck7 says...
Mr crabs wrote:I was'nt thinking of an "angry mob", just a few public spirited citizens to follow any likely suspects at a considerable distance to see where he go's and if he fits the description the police could follow it up to "eliminate him from their enquiries".......
Absolutely disgusting, but not sure I agree with the idea of patrolling the area looking for the bloke. I don't live far from there, I am about the same height, have blonde hair and am of stocky build, to add insult to injury my dog also matches the description. I can be sure it wasn't me because I would have been working to pay for this scum bag, but an angry mob walking the streets wouldn't know that
10:37am Thu 19 Dec 13
Andy-Apache says...
However - my opinion doesn't brand me as a 'conservative supporting idiot', does it? See how being judgemental works? You're just as guilty it seems.
7:36pm Fri 20 Dec 13
Pussyslimeslurper says...
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